#also fun fact apparently most if not all fish hear via sensing vibrations in the water

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

i’ve been wondering for a while about mobility aids for merpeople, so here’s some ideas about that

-there are special webbed gloves designed to help people ‘pull’ themselves through water easier

-a waterproof wheelchair could be helpful for a merperson that spends all or most of the time on the [insert body of water here] floor

-propulsion devices

-a mix between a wheelchair and a propulsion device

-service animals (a setting featuring merpeople has lots of room for hippocampi/all their variants, sea serpents, giant versions of aquatic creatures, completely made up ones, etc.)

-modified crutches designed to stick to solid surfaces (because. underwater)

-winter the dolphin had a prosthetic tail that worked pretty well for her, though that isn’t too helpful for a character that doesn’t want or can’t use prosthetics

-carriage with a seatbelt or removable dome to keep the merperson safe inside, pulled along by some sort of creature (kind of dealer’s choice on that one)

-merperson with vision impairment could make use of, again, service animals. or they could use a device that functions similarly to electroreception in real fish (for an example, the african knifefish can swim just as easily backwards as it can forwards due to electroreception)

-waterproof braces

that’s all i have for now, offer some thoughts if you have any!